Independent research fellowships
Please find below a list of funders and fellowship schemes considered to be Indipendent Research Fellowships.
Those asterisked support the transition to independence. Applicants should demonstrate readiness to become independent and the award enables them to become so. It could be argued those at the start of an award are not 'independent' yet, but those well in the award may be.
Independent research fellowships
- AHRC
- BBSRC
- British Academy
- British Heart Foundation
- Cancer Research UK
- EPSRC
- ESRC
- ESRC/URKI
- European Research Council
- Health Education England
- Imperial College London
- Leverhulme Trust
- MRC
- NC3R
- NERC
- NERC/UKRI
- NIHR
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- Royal Society
- Royal Society and Wellcome
- Royal Society of Edinburgh
- STFC
- Sêr Cymru
- UKRI
- Wellcome Trust
AHRC
- AHRC Leadership Fellowships – Early Career Researchers
- AHRC Leadership Fellowships
BBSRC
- BBSRC David Phillips Fellowships
- BBSRC Future Leader Fellowships (from 2018 known as BBSRC Discovery Fellowships)
British Academy
- BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships
- British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Mid-Career Fellowships
- Newton Advanced Fellowships
- Newton International Fellowships
- Wolfson Research Professorships
British Heart Foundation
- Career Re-entry Research Fellowships
- Clinical Research Leave Fellowships
- BHF-Fulbright Commission Scholar Awards
- Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowships
- Intermediate Clinical Research Fellowships
- Senior Basic Science Research Fellowships
- Senior Clinical Research Fellowships
- Springboard Award for Biomedical Researchers
- Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers
Cancer Research UK
- Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellowship
- Career Development Fellowship
- Career Establishment Award
- Senior Cancer Research Fellowship
EPSRC
- EPSRC Early Career Fellowship
- EPSRC Established Career Fellowship
- EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship*
ESRC
- ESRC Future Cities Catapult Fellowship
- ESRC Future Leaders Grant
- ESRC/Turing Fellowships
ESRC/URKI
- Early Career Researcher Innovation Fellowships
European Research Council
- ERC Advanced Grants
- ERC Consolidator Grants
- ERC Starting Grants
Health Education England
- ICA Clinical Lectureship
- ICA Senior Clinical Lectureship
Imperial College London
- Imperial College Research Fellowship (ICRF)
- Chapman Fellowship
- Safra UK DRI Fellowships
Leverhulme Trust
- Early Career Fellowship
- Research Fellowship
- Emeritus Fellowship
- Major Research Fellowship
- International Academic Fellowship
MRC
- MRC Career Development Awards*
- MRC New Investigator Research Grants (Non-Clinical)*
- MRC New Investigator Research Grants (Clinical)*
- MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowships*
- Senior Non-Clinical Fellowships
- Senior Clinical Fellowships
NC3R
- David Sainsbury Fellowship
- Training fellowship
NERC
- Independent Research Fellowships
NERC/UKRI
- Industrial Innovation Fellowships
- Industrial Mobility Fellowships
NIHR
- Advanced Fellowship
- Career Development Fellowship
- Clinical Lectureships
- Clinical Trials Fellowship
- Clinician Scientist
- Development and Skills Enhancement Award
- Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellowship
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship
- Research Professorship
- School for Primary Care Post-Doctoral Fellowships
- Senior Research Fellowship
Royal Academy of Engineering
- RAEng Engineering for Development Research Fellowship
- Industrial Fellowships
- RAEng Research Fellowship
- RAEng Senior Research Fellowship
- UK Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Royal Society
- Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship
- Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship*
- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Newton Advanced Fellowship
- Royal Society/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
- University Research Fellowship*
Royal Society and Wellcome
- Sir Henry Dale Fellowship*
Royal Society of Edinburgh
- RSE Arts & Humanities Awards (for permanent staff)
- RSE Personal Research Fellowship
- RSE Sabbatical Research Grants (for permanent staff)
STFC
- CERN Fellowships
- Ernest Rutherford Fellowship
- ESA Fellowships
- Innovations Partnership Scheme Fellowships
- Returner Fellowships
- RSE/STFC Enterprise Fellowships
- Rutherford International Fellowship Programme
Sêr Cymru
- Research Chairs
- Rising Stars
- Recapturing Talent*
- Research fellowships for 3 - 5 year postdocs
UKRI
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships
- UKRI Innovation Fellowships
Wellcome Trust
- Intermediate Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- Principal Research Fellowships
- Research Award for Health Professionals
- Research Career Development Fellowship
- Research Fellowship in Humanities and Social
- Senior Research Fellowship
